(n.) An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.
(n.) A special kind of jury or inquest.
(n.) A kind of writ or real action.
(n.) A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.
(n.) A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures.
(n.) Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize.
(n.) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury.
(n.) The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes.
(n.) Measure; dimension; size.
(v.) To assess; to value; to rate.
(v.) To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority.
Example Sentences:
(1) From "the ritual of the hunt; the pomp of assizes (and all the theatrical power of the law courts); the segregated pews, the late entries and early departures at church" to the splendour of their wealth and hauteur of bearing and expression – all was a performance calculated to overawe the vulgar and extract deference.
(2) In certain cases ad full medical assessment presented before the end of the case will help the professional judges of the jury of Assizes who have to give judgment in a civil action by giving them information that will support the true interests of the victim.
(3) When he appeared at Buckinghamshire assizes in January 1969, Reynolds pleaded guilty to his part in the Great Train Robbery and was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment.
(4) As far as civil action is concerned, as there is usually a fixed scale for every regional Court of Assizes according to a definite formula, it is advisable according to the authors that the initial expert assessment presented by the magistrates should establish in its conclusions the details of the indemnity to be considered by professional judges of the Assize juries.
Sise
Definition:
(n.) An assize.
(n.) Six; the highest number on a die; the cast of six in throwing dice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fact was confirmed that both hypocapnea and alkalosis produced the left-sised shift of oxygen dissociation curve, decrease in P50 (P02 at 50% saturation of oxygen), and in addition, narrowed arterio-mixed venous oxygen difference.